Re: nc -N and EOF

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:

> I tried
> 
>   echo "hello from server" | nc -l 1234
> 
>   nc -l 1234 << EOF
>   hello from server
>   EOF
> 
>   echo "hello from server" > tmpfile
>   nc -l 1234 < tmpfile
> 
> and in all cases
> 
>   nc  -N 127.0.0.1 1234
> 
> prints "hello from server" but doesn't exit.

Use

  nc -d localhost 1234

-uwe